As the Comptroller indicates, there is an unfair formula used to allocate the money now being collected from bridge and tunnel tolls - it benefits the suburbs. And, as he indicates, both the city and state have reduced the funding once provided for mass transit - hence the need for a fare increase. Thompson is too politic to say it, but perhaps the Staten Island ferry should not be a free ride, either.

There are a lot of ways to solve this problem. Why does it always come back to charging people money to enter Brooklyn?